The PowerShot products are a line of consumer and prosumer grade
digital cameras, launched by
Canon in 1995. The
PowerShot line has been successful for
Canon, and is one of the best-selling
digital camera lines worldwide. On the photo sharing website Flickr, in the point-and-shoot category, the top three most-uploaded photographs are taken with
Canon PowerShot cameras.According to Slashdot, freeware from the CHDK project allows nearly complete programmatic control of PowerShot cameras, enabling users to add features, up to and including BASIC scripting.Some models of
Powershot cameras were affected by third party CCD sensors with a design flaw which caused them to fail and display severely distorted images.
Canon has offered to repair affected
cameras free of charge.
